New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008. Strathallan (1816) is at once a conventional and subversive romance. LeFanu is informed by the work of earlier eighteenth-century society satirists such as Frances Brooke and Frances Burney, yet at the same time her interests coincide with those of her more immediate contemporaries Scott and Austen. The novel addresses central themes of adultery, obsession and inheritance.